Chinese Poker is a card game with the objective being to arrange 13 cards into 3 poker hands to maximize their combined value. There are often many ways to arrange the cards, and most of the time, there is no single best way to arrange. Chinese poker is a game in which both luck and skill are equally needed to win.

Chinese Poker has a few other names such as Rusian Poker, Xap Xam, and Xap Xam Chuong.

Playing Chinese Poker
When you first enter a chinese poker game room, you are an observer. To reserve your sit, you can click on one of the empty seats (denoted by [None]) or click on button "Sit". If there is no seat available, consider open a new table, or wait for someone to leave, or go to a different table. Double click on a table will let you to go there.

Once you have a sit, you can play the next time the cards are dealt. If there is no game in progress, you can click on "Deal" to ask the server to deal cards. There must be at least 2 people to play.

At the beginning of a new game, each player is given 13 cards, all in the bottom card slots. You can click on the cards to select them. Once you have selected 3 or 5 cards, you can click on "Move Up" to move the set to the upper card slots.

Once you have moved up all your cards, and the poker hands form a valid arrangement, you can click on the "Submit" button to send your arrangment to the server.

For convinient, the program offers "Rank Sort", "Suit Sort" to help you order the cards in lower slots according to rank or suit. You can use "Deselect All" to deselect all selected cards. For beginners, it's recommended that you use suit sort to look for flush, then use rank sort to organize the rest of your cards.

At any time prior to your submission, you can click on the "X" on the left of any upper card slots to move the cards in those slots down to lower slots.

When all players submit their arrangment, the server will show all the cards and compute the winning/losing amount for each player. The cards of each player is compared with those of other players according to the game rule.

The dealer deals two cards to each player. If both cards in the player's

 hand match, then that player has a pair. Otherwise, the hand is called simply by the high card between the two. For example, a King and an eight would be a King-high. Beginning to the left of the dealer, each player decides whether or not they will go 'in' or 'out'. Those players who are 'out' have no further stakes in the game unless it is re-dealt.

Of those players who are 'in', the one with the best hand collects the pot while the others who called 'in' throw into the pot the amount of money that the winner has collected. If the pot was worth 50 cents, then the winner collects that 50 cents while the other players who called 'in' but lost EACH put 50 cents into the new pot. If three players go 'in', then one player collects and two players match the pot, which would now be a dollar with Casino - Betting Poker Casino.